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is there working on seagate drive #45

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MaminHakim opened this issue Nov 24, 2021 · 1 comment

MaminHakim commented Nov 24, 2021

Hi, I'm looking to make partitions on my SMR host managed seagate disk. is this working on my drive ?

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damien-lemoal commented Nov 25, 2021

GPT partitions are not supported in Linux with SMR host managed drives, irrespective of the device vendor. If you need a "smaller" chunk of the drive to be exposed as a block device, use dm-linear. See: https://zonedstorage.io/linux/part/ and https://zonedstorage.io/linux/dm/#dm-linear.

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